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Why This Social Entrepreneur Is Paying African Women To Go To Free HIV Clinics
Nigerian women get a small payment everytime they’ve received a treatment in a clinic, proved by their geotagged doctors’ notes.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Opinion: A Wealthier Africa Will Depend on Health Care
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have long been the focus of emerging-market investors. But it is in Africa, a region with the world’s second-fastest growth, where the next big business opportunities lie.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gambia: Rural Electrification Boosts Health Care Delivery
CEO Kebba Badjie recently made these remarks in an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer in Bwiam.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Typhoon Haiyan leaves shattered healthcare in central Philippines
There have been no major outbreaks of disease in Samar and Eastern Samar provinces, but between Jan. 1 and 20 , there were 84 suspected dengue cases in Ormoc City in Leyte Province, leading to the medical evacuation of at least four international aid workers.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Power imbalances between nations ‘undermining global health efforts’
A joint commission from The Lancet and the University of Oslo in Norway finds that the imbalance of political power between nations is failing to protect the public's health, and calls for urgent reform in global decision making.
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- Education, Health Care
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Announcing a New Investment: Miliki Afya
Acumen is pleased to announce a $600,000 equity investment in Miliki Afya Ltd., a company that aims to create a chain of clinics that offer high quality, low cost, outpatient care and diagnostics in low income, densely populated areas in Kenya.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing, scale
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Space Programme Can Improve Health Care: Ex-ISRO Chief
India's versatile space programme has potential to significantly improve health care through tele-medicine and gene therapy which will go a long way in providing affordable treatment to large section of people, former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan said today.
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- Health Care
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Prevention is Key to Decreasing Cancer Mortality in Africa
For many young women, identifying a lump during a breast self-exam can be terrifying. The thought of cancer strikes fear in the heart of many and unfortunately, it appears to be on the rise according to the recently released World Cancer Report 2014. In 2012 alone, there were 14 million new cancer cases and this number is expected to rise to 22 million in 20 years.
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- Education, Health Care
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